Seen & Unseen Aloud: new episode

C.S. Lewis' storytelling, Shardlake, and the mistakes that set us apart.

Natalie Garrett

Natalie produces and narrates The Seen & Unseen Aloud podcast. She's an Anglican minister and a trained actor.

Two men in Tudor clothing converse in a street

Shardlake, left, played by Arthur Hughes.

In the second of our Summer episodes, Simon Horobin unpacks CS Lewis's assertion that great stories allow ideas to be experienced rather than merely thought about; James Cary explores the Disneyfication of the Monasteries in Shardlake and Sylvianne Aspray asserts that it's our mistakes that set us apart from the machines.

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18 November 2024

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Seen & Unseen Aloud: Trump, Henry VIII, Paddington and Keegan

New episode: understanding the election, Tudor authority, the bear returns, and backstage goodness.

Nick Jones

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

A cartoon bear, wearing a blue duffel coat and red hat, rests his arms on a rock against a mountainous background

Paddington ponders Peru.

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This week's smorgasbord includes Graham Tomlin's claim that Trump's win may be neither total triumph nor total disaster; Jack Chisnall discusses national leadership from Henry VIII in Wolf Hall to present day; Krish Kandiah unpacks the Paddington Paradox and Kevin Hargaden shines a spotlight on the backstage goodness of Small Things like These.